When You Ignore Symptoms

If you suffer from substance abuse or behavioral addiction, please seek professional help. Ignoring your diagnosis can lead to serious health problems and behavioral issues. It’s never too late to choose recovery.

Insurance

If you are worried about your out-of-pocket expenses, we can help verify your insurance. If you’re a member of a health plan, we can also assist you in understanding your coverage and find the right treatment center and rehab program for you.

Alcohol Abuse

Substance abuse involves an addiction to things such as cocaine, heroin, prescription drugs, alcohol or anything else a person consumes regularly in large amounts for purposes other than their intended use.

Anger Management

Anger management is a psycho-therapeutic program for anger prevention and control. It has been described as deploying anger successfully.

Anxiety

A nervous disorder characterized by a state of excessive uneasiness and apprehension, typically with compulsive behavior or panic attacks.

Attention

The behavioral and cognitive process where an individual concentrates on specific information, whether it be subjective or objective, while ignoring other perceivable information.

Behavioral Addiction

An addiction to activities such as gambling, sexual activity, video gaming, watching pornography or other behaviors a person engages in regularly usually for the purpose of avoiding real life circumstances.

Child or Adolescent Behavior

Child therapists specialize in treating children with behavioral, emotional, or mental disorders. They must have a doctoral degree, complete post-doctorate work, and obtain state licensure.

Coping Skills

Ways in which we learn to deal with various stressors. Each person copes with stress differently.

Depression

A mood and mental disorder that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest, affecting how you feel, think and behave.

Drug Abuse

Excessive and self-damaging use of habit forming drugs or substances that lead to addiction or dependence, and may cause serious psychological and physical harm, or even death.

Eating Disorder

Eating disorders involve engaging in irregular behaviors related to food, such as avoiding food, eating too much food, purging food or calories from the body and obsessions with burning fat and calories.

Gambling Addiction

An impulse-control disorder that can stimulate the brain’s reward system much like drugs and alcohol, and causes the afflicted to have an uncontrollable urge to gamble despite the consequences.

Internet Addiction

Any online-related, impulse-control disorder which affects everyday living and causes severe stress on relationships and one’s work environment.

Life Coaching

Individual coaching addressing areas of life including personal goals and activities, successes, failures, life transitions which help people discover the obstacles holding them back from their full potential.

Mental Health

A measure of a person’s social, psychological and emotional well-being such as ADD/ADHD, anxiety disorders, bipolar disorder, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder and other conditions that negatively impact a person’s daily life.

Mood/Emotional Issues

A general emotional state or mood that is distorted or inconsistent with present circumstances such as depression, anxiety, mania, bipolar, or any other mental health disorder.

Relationships

Relationships fail for many reasons, and this failure often causes psychological anguish, so its important to work on the skills necessary to sustain healthy relationships.

Sex Addiction

A progressive intimacy disorder in which the afflicted engages in compulsive or even excessive engagement in sexual activity despite physical or emotional consequences.

Sexual Abuse

Also referred to as molestation. It is an undesired, and usually forced, sexual behavior by one person upon another. The offender is referred as a sexual abuser or molester.

Shopping Addiction

An impulse-control and mental health disorder in which the afflicted shops compulsively regardless of need, financial means, or financial consequences.

Stress

Substance Abuse

Substance abuse involves an addiction to things such as cocaine, heroin, prescription drugs, alcohol or anything else a person consumes regularly in large amounts for purposes other than their intended use.

Trauma and PTSD

A mental health disorder triggered by a terrifying event and causes flashbacks, nightmares, severe anxiety, as well as uncontrollable thoughts about the event.

Video Game Addiction

An impulse-control disorder in which the afflicted has an uncontrollable need to play video games excessively despite mental and emotional consequences with themselves or loved ones.

Work Addiction

Often referred to as a “workaholic”, it is a mental and impulse-control disorder in which the afflicted works compulsively and excessively despite physical and emotional consequence with themselves or loved ones.

12 Step Program

Those in a 12 step recovery program follow an outline of principles to help them engage in and cope with recovery from addiction and other behavioral health issues.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

A form of cognitive behavioral therapy that uses mindfulness to guide people toward engaging in positive behaviors even when facing negative thoughts and emotions.

Acupuncture

A medical practice that uses needles to relieve pain or treat other health conditions.

Art Therapy

A form of therapy that encourages self-expression through drawing, painting or modeling.

Attachment-Based Therapy

A form of psychotherapy that encourages people to open up about their past and present emotional experiences to help them manage current relationships.

Behavioral Modification

A form of therapy focused on helping people replace harmful or negative behaviors with positive ones.

Biofeedback

Electronic monitoring of a bodily function that trains someone to acquire voluntary control of that function.

Buprenorphine

A drug often used to treat opioid addiction.

Christian Counseling

Christian Counseling approaches treatment through the lens of Biblical principles.

Coaching

A coach works with an individual encouraging them to achieve personal or professional goals through training and advice.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

A form of therapy that focuses on helping people develop coping strategies to change negative behaviors, emotions, thoughts and beliefs.

Culturally Sensitive

Being aware that there are similarities between people despite cultural differences.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

A therapy that helps change harmful behaviors such as self-harm and substance abuse.

Eclectic Psychology

The use of techniques from multiple schools of psychology to create a unique treatment plan for a patient.

EMDR

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is a non-traditional form of therapy used to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Emotional Focused Therapy (EFT)

Emotion-based therapy for romantic couples and families.

Emotionally Focused Coping

Therapy designed to reduce negative emotional responses associated with a variety of stressors such as embarrassment, fear and anxiety.

Equine Therapy

A form of therapy that introduces horses to promote emotional growth in patients with ADD, anxiety, autism, dementia, down syndrome, depression, trauma, brain injuries, behavior and abuse issues, as well as other mental health issues.

Evidence Based Treatment

Evidence based approaches to psychotherapy proven effective in treating a variety of symptoms in children, adolescents and adults.

Experiential Therapies

A form of therapy that encourages patients to address subconscious issues through role playing, guided imagery and other activities.

Exposure Therapy

A technique in behavior therapy used to treat anxiety disorders, and involves the exposure of the patient to the feared object or context without any danger, in order to overcome their anxiety.

Family Systems Therapy

A branch of psychotherapy that works with families and couples in intimate relationships to nurture change and development.

Family/Marital

A form of psychotherapy that involves all the members of a nuclear or extended family, and focuses on relationships and communication patterns rather than traits or symptoms of an individual.

Feminist Therapy

A set of related therapies arising from what proponents see as a disparity between the origin of most psychological theories and the majority of people seeking counseling being female.

Forensic Psychology

A cross between psychology and the justice system, and involves understanding fundamental legal principles in order to interact appropriately with judges, attorneys, and other legal professionals.

Gestalt

A psychotherapeutic approach developed by Fritz Perls (1893–1970), which focuses on insight into gestalts in patients and their relations to the world, and often uses role-playing to aid the resolution of past conflicts.

Gottman Method

A highly structured and goal oriented form of couples therapy, meant to disarm conflicting verbal communication and increase intimacy to maintain healthy relationships.

Group Therapy

Under the supervision of a therapist, a group of patients meet to describe and discuss their problems and build community support from one another.

Holistic Treatment

A type of treatment that focuses on an individual’s overall physical, mental, spiritual and emotional well-being before recommending treatment.

Humanistic Therapy

A style of therapy that emphasizes the basic goodness of human beings and their drive for creativity and self-actualization.

Hypnotherapy

An alternative curative healing method that is used to create subconscious change in a patient in the form of new responses, thoughts, attitudes, behaviours or feelings.

Imago Therapy

An effective and safe approach to help couples grow and understand one another by sharing openly and honestly, and evolving into wholeness within the relational context they share.

Integrative Therapy

The integration of elements from different schools of psychotherapy in the treatment of a client.

Interpersonal Therapy

Type of therapy that treats depression by focusing on their interpersonal relationships, communication patterns and how the patient relates to others.

Intervention

A process by which family and friends take it upon themselves, with a counselor, to intervene on a loved one who suffers from a severe addiction and get them professional help.